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I am picking up a few new chicks tomorrow to refresh my flock and am looking for the best layer who is also quiet (suburban backyard) and can handle hot Texas summers. If I have to choose from Gold Sex Links and Americaunas, what do you recommend??? Thanks!

I have nine laying hens and added four 10-week-old girls two months ago. Of the nine "adults", three are Buff Orpingtons who are approaching three years of age, while the other six are 17-month-old Red Stars and Black Austrolorps I raised as chicks last spring. Last summer, we were getting...

I am sick right now and only checked on my "girls" once today, at 6:30 this evening. One of my six month old black Austrolorps was in the nest bucket! I've never had anyone lay that late in the day, so I went back an hour later and she was still in there. I went ahead and pulled her out, but...

Hello All! On the day my six "little girls" turned 18 weeks old, I got my first adorable little egg ~ it was so exciting! Since then, my three "big girls" (who don't lay all that much) and the six young ones have been cranking out the eggs, and I'm getting 4-5 per day so far. My question is...

I started my adventure in the world of backyard chickens late this summer with four, one-year old Buff Orpingtons. After spending their first four months in a chicken tractor, I have finally finished a 10X10 kennel coop for them ~ absolutely palatial! Although very sweet and such fun to watch...

I am heading off to Home Depot to purchase corrugated roof panels for my new kennel coop. In Houston, our main concern weather-wise is HEAT and humidity. Would the galvanized steel, fiberglass, or plastic (PVC) be best in my situation? Any help appreciated!

I am setting up my first coop using a 10 X 10 dog kennel we got from a friend. It's the welded wire one sold at Tractor Supply with rectangular "holes". My question is, how do you hang nesting boxes and roosts when the walls are wire?!? I've seen a couple of pictures where people have screwed...